Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire – Girouard's pioneering study of Robert Smythson, later revised and reissued as Elizabethan Architecture, established his reputation
Mark GirouardFSA (7 October 1931 – 16 August 2022) was a British architectural historian. He was an authority on the country house, and Elizabethan and Victorian architecture.[1]
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/92) with Girouard in 2009 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[9]
Photographs by Girouard are held in the Conway Library of Art and Architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and are currently being digitised.[10]
Personal life
Girouard was married to the artist Dorothy Girouard and they lived in Notting Hill Gate, London. They had one daughter, the writer Blanche Girouard.[1][11] Girouard died on 16 August 2022, at the age of 90.[12]
Friendships (2017)[12] Wilmington Square Books, ISBN 978-190852496-6
References
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^"Mark Girouard (7 October 1931 – 16 August 2022)". Christ Church Connections. 25 August 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
^"List of Fellows". Society of Antiquaries. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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^"Mark Girouard, Architectural Historian – Spitalfields Life". spitalfieldslife.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
^"British Literary Awards - Duff Cooper Memorial Prize 1978". University of North Carolina Asheville. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
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^National Life Stories, 'Girouard, Mark (1 of 5) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2009 Archived 21 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 10 April 2018
^"Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
^The Independent, 8 February 1993, Marina Cantacuzino Archived 11 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine "Does only have to mean lonely?: How does growing up without siblings affect a child? Marina Cantacuzino looks at the question from the point of view of offspring and parents"
^ a b c"Mark Girouard, author of classic works on architecture and social history including Life in the English Country House – obituary". The Telegraph. 17 August 2022.
^Girouard, Mark (2011). Enthusiasms.
^Girouard, Mark (1966). Montacute House: Somerset. National Trust. OCLC 1007843333.[page needed]
^Mercer, Eric (January 1966). "Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era. By M ark G irouard". Archaeological Journal. 123 (1): 238–239. doi:10.1080/00665983.1966.11077422.
^Adams, Phoebe-Lou (1 November 1979). "The Victorian Country House". The Atlantic.
^Giles, Geoffrey J. (September 1986). "Mark Girouard, Victorian Pubs . Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1984. Pp. 260. Text edition, $36.00. Paperback, $16.95". The Social History of Alcohol Review. 14: 37–39. doi:10.1086/SHAREVv14n1p37.
^Stansky, Peter (Fall 1979). "SWEETNESS AND LIGHT: THE 'QUEEN ANNE' MOVEMENT, 1860-1900, by Mark Girouard (Book Review)". Victorian Studies. 23 (1): 114. ProQuest 1304751925.
^Friedman, Alice T. (1 May 1979). "Review: Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History by Mark Girouard; Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France and Holland by Peter Thornton". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 38 (2): 198–199. doi:10.2307/989443. JSTOR 989443.
^"Newsletter" (PDF). Society of Architectural Historians. August 1981. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
^Gilley, Sheridan (January 1983). "The return to camelot chivalry and the english gentleman". History of European Ideas. 4 (4): 479–480. doi:10.1016/0191-6599(83)90086-4.
^Kilroy, G. J. F. (April 1982). "Review of Book: The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman". The Downside Review. 100 (339): 152–155. doi:10.1177/001258068210033907. S2CID 164904815.
^Watson, Francis (September 1982). "The Return to Camelot. Chivalry and the English Gentleman. By Mark Girouard. 26·5 × 20 cm. Pp. 312 + 212 pls. (32 col.). New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1981. £12·50". The Antiquaries Journal. 62 (2): 445–446. doi:10.1017/S0003581500066440. S2CID 162314014.
^MacCaffrey, Wallace T. (October 1984). "Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House. Mark Girouard". Renaissance Quarterly. 37 (3): 497–499. doi:10.2307/2860984. JSTOR 2860984. S2CID 163522197.
^Robbins, Deborah (October 1987). ">Cities and People, A Social and Architectural History". Journal of Architectural Education. 41 (1): 57–61. doi:10.1080/10464883.1987.10758467.
^Miller, Naomi (April 1987). "Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History . Mark Girouard". Winterthur Portfolio. 22 (1): 87–89. doi:10.1086/496313.
^"The country house and the English novel". the Guardian. 10 June 2011.
^Statt, Daniel (Autumn 1992). "Review". Eighteenth Century Studies. JSTOR 2739249. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
^Macaulay, James (23 November 1993). "Book Review: Town and Country: MARK GIROUARD, 1992 New Haven and London: Yale University Press 274 pp., £25 hardback ISBN 0 300 05185 9". Urban Studies. 30 (9): 1608–1609. doi:10.1080/00420989320081551. S2CID 157775002.
^"Full text of "The Times , 1993, UK, English"".
^Flanagan, Margaret (15 November 2000). "Life in the French Country House". Booklist. 97 (6): 607. Gale A68019005.
External links
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